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This blog attempts to both explore and map the history and very current issue of environmental warfare and ecocide. It hopes to expose the lack of accountability shown by governments and other entities when it comes to their attempts to leave an unlivable homeland, destroying any hopes of a future for their victims and supposed 'enemies'.

Definitions

According to the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential, Environmental warfare consists of 'deliberate destruction of the environment.' It can include forest defoliation, pollution, craterization of fields, destruction and diversion of water sources, among other impacts. The goal of environmental warfare is 'to deny the enemy cover, food and the life-support of the countryside, thus making [attack] more difficult [...]'.

According to the Stop Ecocide Foundation's Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide, Ecocide means 'unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts', with further definitions for the purpose of the paragraph provided in the linked document.

The name explained...

“Palestine is essentially the land of wild-flowers; the brilliant hues of many contrasting kinds form one of the most interesting features of the landscape, and for a brief spell alter the face of Nature.” - Temple (1907).

The name Altar-ed Earth emerged from a line in Temple’s (above) admiration for Palestine’s natural beauty (pre-occupation). I was struck by how eerily his terminology now resonates. The ‘face of Nature’ has indeed been altered — no longer by its endemic beauty, but by seventy-five years of occupation, conflict, and subsequent genocide. The name combines this bleak foreshadowing with the spiritual — and now apocalyptic — imagery of Earth as an altar, reflecting the shift from humanity’s reverence for the planet as a sacred place to our seemingly godless treatment of it today.

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